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Facundo Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Facundo By Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Summary

A study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852).

Facundo Summary

Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the first time in its entirety. An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today - questions regarding the 'civilized' city versus the 'barbaric' countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization. Facundo's celebrated and frequently anthologized portraits of the caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga and other colorful characters give readers an exhilarating sense of Argentine culture in the making. Kathleen Ross' translation renders Sarmiento's passionate prose into English with all its richness intact, allowing the English-language reader the full experience of Facundo's intensity and historical reach.

About Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Kathleen Ross, Associate Professor of Spanish at New York University, is the author of The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1994), co-editor of Scents of Wood and Silence: Short Stories by Latin American Women Writers(1991), and the translator of works by Cesar Vallejo, Roque Dalton, Julieta Campos and others. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures at Yale University

Table of Contents

Facundo: An Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Translator's Introduction FACUNDO: CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM Author's Note Introduction Chapter I. Physical Aspect of the Argentine Republic Chapter II. Argentine Originality and Characters Chapter III. Association Chapter IV. The Revolution of 1810 Chapter V. Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga Chapter VI. La Rioja Chapter VII. Social Life (1825) Chapter VIII. Tests of Strength Chapter IX. Society at War Chapter X. Society at War Chapter XI. Society at War Chapter XII. Society at War Chapter XIII. Barranca-Yaco!!! Chapter XIV. Unitarist Government Chapter XV. Present and Future Glossary of Historical Names Translator's Notes Index

Additional information

GOR006897062
9780520239807
0520239806
Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
20040108
284
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